On 17 Jul 2002, at 10:52, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 09:54 AM 7/17/02 -0400, you wrote: > >On 16 Jul 2002, at 15:54, Harold Steinhardt wrote: > > > >> However, the best of midi playback still does not give you an honest > >> representation of what real human beings, playing a real acoustic > >> instruments will sound like. > > > >That is as true of playback from your fancy-schmancy professional > >sequencer as it is of lowly Finale. > > Mark Snow's "X-Files". Jerry Gerber's "Moon Festival". Frank Zappa's > re-releases of "Uncle Meat" and others. Three quick examples of music whose > synth origins you'd never guess.
It wasn't I who put the "real human beings" in the equation there, but Harold. I don't have a problem with synthesized music. It is what it is, and I'm glad for that. But if you're looking for the kind of nuance and richness of sound that live performers on acoustic instruments (or electronic) can achieve, the problems are the same for both playback from Finale and playback from a professional-level sequencer. It's easier to achieve more control with the sequencer, but the problem is that you're driving a synthesizer with a small number of adjustments to the overall sound, as opposed to the hundreds of adjustments a live performer will make in each moment of sound. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
